Participation of Children and Young People in Decision-making Action Plan 2024-2028 (Youth-friendly Version)
Youth-friendly version of the Participation of Children and Young People in Decision-making: Action Plan 2024-2028.
Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic was a worldwide crisis, which had a significant impact on children’s lives. The effects were most damaging for children who were already living in disadvantaged circumstances (United Nations, 2020), with children from economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds suffering the most (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2021). Using Ireland as a case study, the purpose of this research is to work collaboratively with children and young people to understand how a child rights-based approach can be embedded in decision-making in times of emergency.
A Report on the Views of Young People on Child Poverty and Wellbeing
The purpose of this report is to capture and put on record the views of the young people involved in the YAG, to communicate the views of the YAG to decision-makers and to ensure that the YAG will be able to influence decisions that affect them.
Scoping Document on the Inclusion of Disabled Children and Young People in Participation in Decision-Making
The aim of this scoping document is to provide advice on approaching participative processes and initiatives in the most accessible and inclusive way possible.
Listening and Engaging with Care Experienced Individuals: A Good Practice Guide
The purpose is to support councillors, council officers and those working in other organisations who want to work with those with care experience for the purposes of co-production, consultation, training or other forms of engagement in which a person’s lived experience of children’s social care is a key part of the expertise they bring.
Opportunities for Youth – National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services
Opportunities for Youth: National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services sets out Ireland’s key policy ambitions for youth work and related services.
Children and Young People as Research Collaborators in a Large-scale Migration Research Project
In this paper we detail and contextualise the collaborative participatory research process developed throughout the IMMERSE research project which maps the integration of migrant children in education in Europe.
Traveller and Roma Education Strategy 2024 – 2030
This education strategy is specifically developed to meet the needs of the children, young people and adults from the Traveller and Roma communities with the aim of enhancing their education experience and success.
Redeveloping the Primary School Curriculum – Wellbeing (PE & SPHE)
This report recounts further consultation with children which took place to help shape NCCA’s development of the new curriculum specification for Wellbeing with children from Stages 3 and 4 (Third to Sixth Classes) in four primary schools between April and June 2023.
Empower Kids (Barnardos) Case Study
How Barnardos involved children and young people who experienced childhood domestic violence and abuse in service and policy decision-making